New Releases by KENNETH W. RENDELL

This book was prepared to document the history and material culture of World War II. It includes a wide variety of sociopolitical and historical materials such as cartoons, photographs, advertisements, publications covers, and other popular-media and government materials. Along with a narrative history you''ll hold replicas of nearly one hundred wartime artifacts: letters from the front, autographed portraits of commanding generals, Nazi propaganda, historic newspapers, Top Secret instructions, patriotic posters, and more.

The book discusses the reasons why collectors acquire these tangible links to the people they admire; the material available on the market; the people who are attracted to the field; where manuscripts are to be found; the detection of forgeries; ways in which the value of documents is determined; and the care and preservation of collections.

Discusses the art of manuscript, document, and antiquity forgery, and explains how such fakes can be detected